Michael Shermer is a well respected man amongst his community. He is the founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, a regular contributor to Time.com, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman

In the unlikely event of a volcanic supereruption at Yellowstone National Park, the northern Rocky Mountains would be blanketed in meters of ash, and millimeters would be deposited as far away as New York

For the first time in history, the academic world is paying attention to the spectacular underground world of Ani, a 5,000-year-old Armenian city located on the Turkish-Armenian border. Hurriyet Daily News reports that

Series of booms being heard around the world—sinkholes opening up and sucking people and objects deep inside—dead animals falling from the sky—and more! But what do they all have in common? Watch the below

US geological study finds that earthquakes caused by some energy drilling are felt 16 times less than natural earthquakes
Man-made earthquakes, a side effect of some high-tech energy drilling, cause less shaking and in general